Lowongan NUSANTARA SAKTI GAJI TINGGI

 ADMINISTRATOR POWER: I could not be happier to be back here in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm really grateful to President Thomas, to Provost Brown, to the students, and faculty here at Morehouse, for being a part of this incredible day, this incredible partnership. Which I hope people will look back on, and recognize as an inflection point in the kind of collaboration that we do, and indeed, an inflection point for some of the students who are here today. I'm here to announce our new partnership with the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership. This is a partnership that is going to expose students here to work that promotes global peace, promotes democracy and governance, empowers women, and tackles the most important generational challenge that Morehouse students face, which is the climate crisis. Which touches on so much else that matters to your students and to your faculty, exacerbating poverty, endangering health, bringing about new diseases.

There is so much to be done on climate change, and this is a campus where there is such talent, and capacity for innovation, and impacts, that we could not be more excited to work together. The partnership that we are initiating today, in some respects, is made possible by the continued efforts and support of the Center's Executive Director, Dr. Jann Adams, as well as Dr. Levar Smith, who helped shape the memorandum of understanding that we are signing today, so a huge thanks to both of you.

I must also thank the USAID team who helped make this partnership real - Ryan McCannell, Jennifer Hawkins, Alexious Butler, Kathy Body, and Julie Southfield. I also want to welcome State Representative Dexter Sharper, who has long served his fellow residents of Valdosta, Georgia. And finally, I want to acknowledge a few Morehouse alums with ties to our Agency, USAID. First, Julius Coles, who is with us today, class of 1964, whose 30 years in the Foreign Service took him across half-a-dozen posts in Africa and Asia. And Nicholas Bassey, class of 1997, who dedicated most of his career to expanding diversity in foreign policy and development work, from the Institute for International Public Policy to the Peace Corps, and then to the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID.

That mission is at the core of why I’m here today. Diversity and inclusion aren’t luxuries. They are critical to the success of any aspect of public policy, including American foreign policy, and they are certainly critical to the success of USAID’s programming, and our pursuit of improvements in human welfare around the world. But I gotta be frank, I’m a frank kind of person, we have not done enough to seek out diverse sources of talent at USAID, we just haven’t. We have posted job listings with great enthusiasm, or attended career fairs at places like Georgetown or Yale, or even Emory University. But we’ve only recently started recruiting aggressively and engaging faculty in a much more intentional way at minority-serving institutions like Morehouse and Spelman. And we’re now providing opportunities like internships, mentorships, and research grants for people like Rollin, who’ve got the goods, and we just want to nurture that talent and make sure that those exposures come early and often, and that mentorship is made available and careers in international development open up.

So, we are changing the way business as usual has been done. In the last year alone, thanks to the efforts of the team that I had mentioned a minute ago, we’ve signed partnership agreements with Tuskegee, with Delaware State, with Alcorn State, and with Florida International University.

And today, I could not be more privileged to join you here at Morehouse, in a city so close to my heart, celebrating a new partnership with a Center named after a personal hero of mine.

As Rollin mentioned, I spent my formative years here in Atlanta, where I attended Lakeside High School. My first day at school coincided with the early years of DeKalb County’s new busing system – a culmination of a lengthy effort to integrate the county’s schools, that maybe some of you here were involved in. That first morning, my first day of high school in 1983, I arrived as hundreds of Black students disembarked from yellow school buses and walked into the school, heckled by angry White parents who had fought against the integration in school board meetings and in courtrooms. But the Black students and their families prevailed, and my graduating class – the Lakeside Vikings Class of 1988 – would become the first where Black students outnumbered White.